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Mardi Gras season is here in Louisiana, and you can feel the excitement in most communities. However, one small south Louisiana town will not have a parade in 2025. Smaller communities count on Mardi Gras when it comes to bringing revenue to their town or village, but a small town will not be so fortunate this year due to the increase in crime For the first time in decades, New Orleans will have no grand celebration today to mark Mardi Gras.The Carnival parade was canceled by city officials due to the ongoing pandemic, while bars and Mardi Gras 2025 in New Orleans: a preview of all parades, with dates and maps The 2025 New Orleans Carnival season starts on Saturday, Jan. 6, and concludes on Mardi Gras, Tuesday, March 4. Email One Southeastern Louisiana Mardi Gras parade canceled, another rescheduled due to weather. BY EMMA DISCHER | Staff writer. Emma Discher. Author email; Feb 21, 2025 Feb 21, 2025 Updated 22 hrs ago; Mardi Gras is synonymous with the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The parades have been canceled only 13 times in NOLA since 1857. Ever since the first large-scale Mardi Gras parade rolled through the streets of New Orleans—the Mystick Krewe of Comus’s torch-lit tribute to Paradise Lost on February 24, 1857—Carnival has been canceled a total of 14 times, whether officially by the city or unofficially by the krewes themselves. The annual celebration has been suspended Parades in New Orleans, Jefferson Parish have canceled their 2024 Mardi Gras. WWL Louisiana's digital team has put together a list of canceled parades. krewedelusion parade BALDWIN, La. — The 2025 Carnival season will be a little less festive in St. Mary Parish, after Baldwin officials have announced its Mardi Gras parade, scheduled for March 1, has been canceled. Mardi Gras officially kicked off in the city on Jan. 6 and runs through Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras Day, on March 4. Between now and Fat Tuesday, about 40 parades are planned. Banned from parade routes When are the 2025 Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans? There will be plenty of parades around New Orleans for the last few days of the carnival season leading up to Mardi Gras on Tuesday March 4 Click on the Mardi Gras krewes below for further information about the krewe and to see their usual route for each parade. Please note: Events and activities are subject to change without notice. Stay tuned to the site for further info. As a result, many of the krewes either decided not to have a parade (including Rex, Comus, and Zulu) or moved to neighboring parishes instead. Mardi Gras Will Never Die. Photo by Thomas Park on Unsplash. While not having Mardi Gras parades this year does hurt in the moment, it has to be put into perspective. Heading into Mardi Gras, here is a list of parades and courirs coming up across the region: SUNDAY, FEB. 23 (CANCELLED) MID-CITY GRAS - 1 p.m. FRIDAY, FEB. 28 SOUTHDOWNS - 7 p.m. SATURDAY, MARCH 1 Following the George P. Mitchell Mardi Gras Award Presentation, this is the first parade to Kick Off Mardi Gras Galveston 2025! This parade is packed with marching bands, dancing squads & tons of energy. Also rolling in this party parade is Carne’s Fleet of Bumpin’ Busses, The Union Fire Truck & various local Floats throwing Beads & other Saturday, February 1. 1 p.m. – Krewe de la Dauphine (Dauphin Island) Saturday, February 8. 1 p.m. – Dauphin Island People’s Parade (Dauphin Island) SEMMES, Ala. (WKRG) — The Semmes Chamber of Commerce has made the decision to cancel the city’s Mardi Gras parade and ball, News 5 has learned. The parade and ball would have been the first f One Southeastern Louisiana Mardi Gras parade canceled, another rescheduled due to weather. Two more Louisiana parades have announced a change of plans due to stormy weather forecasts. A traditional Mardi Gras parade in south Louisiana has been canceled. We're in Carnival season and many communities are excited about their upcoming Mardi Gras parades, but one small community will be without this year. It has been announced that Loreauville’s only Mardi Gras parade has been called off this year. The 2024 krewedelusion parade, which had been scheduled for Saturday night, has canceled, according to a press release issued by the krewe on Thursday.. According to a krewe spokesman, a Mardi Gras parades will not run tomorrow across the two parishes due to bad weather. Parades scheduled Feb. 23 in Terrebonne and Lafourche have been postponed or canceled.
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